Re: Running two copies of apache

[Hannes Mayer <h mayer inode at>]

Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 09:19 -0400, Doug Maurer wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 09:02, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >
> > > > > > > > "Ted" == Ted Kaczmarek <fedora linsolutions com> writes:
> > >
> > >    Ted> On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 11:04 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> > >    >> What tasks need to be done to get a second copy of apache
> > >    >> running on a bog-standard FC2 system?  -- Colin Paul Adams
> > >    >> Preston Lancashire
> > >    >> 
> > >    >> 
> > >    Ted> 1) Why do you need 2 copies?  Virtual server is what you may
> > >
> > > I don't have enough domain names or IP addresses left.
> >
> > I think you might have everyone confused.. at least I am.. with virtual
> > servers, you can tell the dns servers to point your domain names to one
> > IP and apache will know which domain is being asked for and send back
> > the appropriate site pages being requested.
> >
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/name-based.html
>
> Exactly, which is why one should never need two copies of apache running
> on one box. I also stated "what you may want" as original post was
> lacking requirement details :-)

Well, it also has advantages of running 2 apaches on the same machine.
We have a high traffic site hosted on one machine and one apache is only doing
mod-perl stuff and the other apache just serving images.
That was developed before I joined the company, but folks told me that it
*indeed* has a performance gain, because the image-apache doesn't have mod-perl
enabled.

Cheers,
Hannes.